Energy concentration for the Landau-Lifshitz equation (Q950249)

Given a weakly convergent sequence of solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz equation \(\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + a u \wedge (u \wedge \Delta u) + bu \wedge \Delta u =0\) in a three-dimensional domain \(\Omega\), the energy density may concentrate in such a limit on a certain subset of \(\Omega\). The author shows that almost for all values of \(t\) such a subset may be interpreted as a collection of generalized curves in \(\Omega\) and the evolution of these curves in \(t\) is partially described by a certain generalization of the mean curvature flow which is \(\frac{\partial F}{\partial t} = a H_t - b\tau_t \wedge H_t\), where \(F:S^1 \times [0,T) \to \Omega\) is a family of curves depending on \(t\), \(H_t\) is the curvature vector field, and \(\tau_t\) is the unit tangent vector field.